added a genguid helper function based on genguid by Jon Wilson. Will be needed later on when building project files.
Added: trunk/reactos/tools/rbuild/backend/msvc/genguid.cpp
Modified: trunk/reactos/tools/rbuild/backend/msvc/msvc.cpp
Modified: trunk/reactos/tools/rbuild/rbuild.mak

Added: trunk/reactos/tools/rbuild/backend/msvc/genguid.cpp
--- trunk/reactos/tools/rbuild/backend/msvc/genguid.cpp	2005-08-21 04:04:13 UTC (rev 17456)
+++ trunk/reactos/tools/rbuild/backend/msvc/genguid.cpp	2005-08-21 14:04:19 UTC (rev 17457)
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+/*
+ *  Based on the genguid utility for WINE and ReactOS
+ *
+ *  Copyright 2003 Jonathan Wilson
+ *  Copyright 2005 Steven Edwards
+ *
+ * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+ * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+ * Lesser General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ * License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
+ * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
+ *
+ */
+
+#include <objbase.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+static HRESULT (*pCoInitialize)(PVOID);
+static void (*pCoUninitialize)(void);
+static HRESULT (*pCoCreateGuid)(GUID*);
+
+void gen_guid()
+{
+	GUID m_guid;
+	HRESULT result;
+	char *strfmt = "";
+	HMODULE olelib;
+
+    /* Load ole32. We will need it later on */
+	olelib = LoadLibraryA( "ole32.dll" );
+
+	if (olelib != NULL)
+		pCoInitialize = (HRESULT (*)(void*))GetProcAddress( olelib, "CoInitialize" );
+		pCoUninitialize = (void (*)())GetProcAddress( olelib, "CoUninitialize" );
+		pCoCreateGuid = (HRESULT (*)(GUID*))GetProcAddress( olelib, "CoCreateGuid" );
+
+	if (pCoInitialize(NULL) != S_OK)
+	{
+		printf("Unable to initalize OLE libraries\n");
+	}
+	result = pCoCreateGuid(&m_guid);
+	if (result != S_OK) {
+		printf("Unable to create GUID\n");
+		pCoUninitialize();
+	}
+	strfmt = "%08lX-%04X-%04x-%02X%02X-%02X%02X%02X%02X%02X%02X\r\n";
+	printf(strfmt,m_guid.Data1,m_guid.Data2,m_guid.Data3,m_guid.Data4[0],
+	m_guid.Data4[1],m_guid.Data4[2],m_guid.Data4[3],m_guid.Data4[4],m_guid.Data4[5],
+	m_guid.Data4[6],m_guid.Data4[7],m_guid.Data1,m_guid.Data2,m_guid.Data3,m_guid.Data4[0],
+	m_guid.Data4[1],m_guid.Data4[2],m_guid.Data4[3],m_guid.Data4[4],m_guid.Data4[5],
+	m_guid.Data4[6],m_guid.Data4[7]);
+	pCoUninitialize();
+}

Modified: trunk/reactos/tools/rbuild/backend/msvc/msvc.cpp
--- trunk/reactos/tools/rbuild/backend/msvc/msvc.cpp	2005-08-21 04:04:13 UTC (rev 17456)
+++ trunk/reactos/tools/rbuild/backend/msvc/msvc.cpp	2005-08-21 14:04:19 UTC (rev 17457)
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@
 
 using namespace std;
 
+void gen_guid();
+
 static class MSVCFactory : public Backend::Factory
 {
 	public:
@@ -95,6 +97,8 @@
 	cout << "Done." << endl << endl;
 
 	cout << "Don't expect the MSVC backend to work yet. "<< endl << endl;
+
+	gen_guid();
 }
 
 void MSVCBackend::ProcessModules()

Modified: trunk/reactos/tools/rbuild/rbuild.mak
--- trunk/reactos/tools/rbuild/rbuild.mak	2005-08-21 04:04:13 UTC (rev 17456)
+++ trunk/reactos/tools/rbuild/rbuild.mak	2005-08-21 14:04:19 UTC (rev 17457)
@@ -137,6 +137,7 @@
 	)
 
 RBUILD_BACKEND_MSVC_BASE_SOURCES = $(addprefix $(RBUILD_MSVC_BASE_), \
+	genguid.cpp \
 	msvc.cpp \
 	)
 
@@ -348,6 +349,10 @@
 	$(ECHO_CC)
 	${host_gpp} $(RBUILD_HOST_CXXFLAGS) -c $< -o $@
 
+$(RBUILD_MSVC_INT_)genguid.o: $(RBUILD_MSVC_BASE_)genguid.cpp $(RBUILD_HEADERS) | $(RBUILD_MSVC_INT)
+	$(ECHO_CC)
+	${host_gpp} $(RBUILD_HOST_CFLAGS) -c $< -o $@
+
 $(RBUILD_MSVC_INT_)msvc.o: $(RBUILD_MSVC_BASE_)msvc.cpp $(RBUILD_HEADERS) | $(RBUILD_MSVC_INT)
 	$(ECHO_CC)
 	${host_gpp} $(RBUILD_HOST_CXXFLAGS) -c $< -o $@